annalist

Such works are highly valuable, but they are so to the annalist or historian rather than the ordinary reader.

The Annalist is unsparing in his condemnation of the attempts made at various times to change them.

What were the causes of this war, wrote a Hungarian annalist, are not to be ascertained.

This strange transaction rests on the authority of the contemporary annalist Hoveden.

The annalist at Margan enters also the year 1210 as a sickly one throughout England.